The Role of the Prophet

"Truth-telling" not "fortune-telling," is required of us all.

It’s fitting that I’m in Albuquerque to visit Father Richard Rohr today to discuss his new book, The Tears of Things: Prophetic Wisdom for an Age of Outrage, which comes out next month. And this feels both fitting, and well prophetic—at least in the context under which we understand the word, which is that a prophet is speaking on behalf of the divine. …